No, downer, you should take advice from someone that tells you how you should respond when reading your own writing, especially when that someone says you shouldbe touched.

If you don't respond emotionally to your own work, there's a good chance that no other reader will either. If you read your own work, and do not respond emotionally, it probably sucks and needs a rewrite.

I know you're just being a smart ass, and trying to make this thread all about me, which is a common reaction from people that read what I have written.

It's normal. I'm used to it. I create these reactions in people. I've been doing it since I was just a little punk. Now I'm a big punk. Don't worry about it.

Well...... I can't say your wrong. If you're on this site, and know a thing or two about all the arts, I'm pretty sure for every author, musician, film-maker I know, there are at least a hundred-thousand who have tried and failed in their attempts to bring their art to the public. Let me say I wrote my book on a whim; somebody said something, and I got a bug up my ass to make it. During the past four years, and countless rejection notices, I was pointed in the direction of CreateSpace & Smashwords to have the book self-published. I wouldn't have gone this far if I didn't feel strongly about what I had done. And, while I've tried and failed and all my other artistic attempts, I had a 'now or never' attitude when it came to this book.

Yes, good stuff makes me jealous, too. But the two things that made me actually work on this was: - Author Michelle Jaffe was sitting in my wife's salon chair, and she was ranting about how awful she thought "The DiVinci Code" was. She said, "Anybody can make this crap! Even YOU!" Sure, she may have been saying this out of spite or jealously, but I got a small spurt of confidence. - When I saw that episode of "Family Guy" when Stewy was chiding Brian about his novel, and his voice got higher and higher, asking him how it going.

So, yes, I am a nobody, and perhaps I'm a little naive when I think of strangers on the internet, taking an interest in something I've created. But still, someone I don't know reading something I've written, and saying, "That was pretty good.", seems like success to me. (This happened last week, in the chat room of "Kevin Pollak's Chat Show")

If it wasn't for certain people, mostly teachers, I never would have written much, either.

I can't discount the value of the muse in my life. If it wasn't for this elegant woman, I know I would not have put much on paper. In a way, everything is for her, for her amusement and evaluation.

I don't know about self-publishing, or whether it is for me. Just printing it out and putting it in a loose-leaf binder works for me.

I think I'll try to check your book out, vince_de_wilde...I'll bet it's pretty good, maybe great. Of course, various examples of my creations are scattered about this forum, if you want to check them out. I tend to give my writing away to people I like, or people that I have something in common with, such as a love for Frank Zappa.

You are truly hilarious, you don't need any help doing this, you came wading into this thread and made it all about yourself right from the off.

A rope leash wrote:

... a common reaction from people that read what I have written. It's normal. I'm used to it. I create these reactions in people. I've been doing it since I was just a little punk. Now I'm a big punk. Don't worry about it.

Wow, you really have tickets on yourself don't you?

A rope leash wrote:

It really is all about me...

... in your mind ... you and Nietsche, a similarly self obsessed and paranoid individual (paranoid in the sense of delusions of grandeur) ...

_________________The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

Do a little, research, though, phy...thread after thread where I have posted I have soon after become the subject. That's because people can't separate the writing or the writing content from the writer. Some people think that a writer is exactly what he writes, when in fact, the writer is just a person that writes something. All of what I write could be one-hundred-eighty degrees away from what I actually think. Surely you know this, but you insist on calling me out because I portend to truly like myself.

Of course I have delusions of grandeur. Have you EVER tried to write something larger than a forum post? It is absolutely essential that negativity as to your worth be put aside, or at the very least, masked.

So, poly-phy...when YOU post something lengthy and creative, I will give you a tip of my invisible hat, for only then will I know that you understand what a writer goes through.

...and thanks for comparing me to Nietsche. Yep, I'm right in there with the great philosophers of all time, reviled and despised in my own time.

No, downer, you should take advice from someone that tells you how you should respond when reading your own writing, especially when that someone says you should be touched.

You should simply be stimulated and hope it touches others.Good writing never preaches. Do I need to quote Henry Miller?

A rope leash wrote:

I know you're just being a smart ass, and trying to make this thread all about me, which is a common reaction from people that read what I have written.

I was being totally sincere. I was not trying to make the thread all about you. I was disagreeing with your statement about being deeply touched by your own writing. I think you should be more objective and less narcissistic. By narcissistic I mean an overwhelming self focus in your interpersonal exchanges.

A rope leash wrote:

It really is all about me

That's what cheapens it.

A rope leash wrote:

It is absolutely essential that negativity as to your worth be put aside, or at the very least, masked.

That's bullshit. There are no rules. Must I quote Henry Miller?

vince_de_wild wrote:

good stuff makes me jealous

Good stuff never makes me jealous. It inspires me. Jealousy is for those who can't and wish they could.

That's a good quote. I brings to mind the old insinuation that a "real" writer must write, or is compelled to write. In my mind, most writers do write because of some outside pressure, or deadline. Thus, the work cannot be assumed to be truly inspired, which is the case with a lot of published work...the author is given an advance and a deadline, and the pressure is on.

I like to think that my writing is usually done through true inspiration. I don't have to write, I write because I want to, and because I want to impress the muse. That's a lot different than writing to pay the utility bill.

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